Another good point TP, thanks. I believe I've set the code up for rotary axis direction as follows:
Looking at the "drop" end of the tube, the end that you aren't going to use, a positive rotation is clockwise, negative is counterclockwise. So in Mach you'd have to set up your rotary axis rotation accordingly.
Hmm,,, I'll have to check my saddle code though. I'm still trying to get rid of that "bad character" in my output files. It's a hidden character that Windows programs use to identify which type of text file it is---- Plain text, Rich text, HTML etc. NotePad and others see and understand what that character means and loads without displaying it. Today I've got to put my head in Visual Basic 2008 to see what I can do about it.
Tony